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The edit distance (also: Levenshtein distance) between two strings measures the number of insertions and deletions it takes to convert one string to another.

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Edit distance of list with unique elements

Levenshtein-Distance edit distance between lists is a well studied problem. But I can't find much on possible improvements if it is known that no element does occurs more than once in each list. …
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